25 Apr 1912
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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
1
An advertisement touts savings across a wide range of goods including dishes dresses work shirts ribbons notions and items from 10 15 and 25 cent counters. The call to action emphasizes cheap prices and daily usefulness.
Local items mention rain and light freezes, visits to Stromsburg and York, and multiple community notices. Names include James Green, Mae Sedam, Forrest Saint, H. T. Frazier, Lindburg, Victor Anderson & Co. Jeweler Swanson, Earl Cockle, Prof. Homer Lattimer, J.P. Et al. Various ads promote seeds, instruments, insurance, livestock, and real estate, with calendar notes on meetings and upcoming events.
A. G. Lindburg advertises chick feed for sale and H. E. Ayres & Co. lists a four room partly modern house with one lot priced at 1100 dollars for sale within 30 days, while local residents F. H. Hawk and George Reed visit the town.
Seed corn promotion notes 1910 Iowa Gold Mine seed grown in Merrick County Nebraska by Badger and Wolcott of Central City. The ad claims quality and suitability for planting.
200 acre farm and an 820 acre parcel in Yellow Medicine County Minnesota offered for sale. Prices 8500 per acre with cash deals 9000 for the 200 acre tract and 14000 for the 820 acre tract. Terms include 6 percent interest and balance due. Contact H P Bengtson Granite Falls Minnesota.
A mass meeting at the Baptist church approved plans for a new brick church valued at 11000. The vote included selling the old building to clear the site for the new structure. The finance committee chaired by E M Burke includes W Lindburg and a third appointee. Building committee is Axel F Jones chair with Charles Lindburg and W T Samuelson.
Aoe 4 block well located property offers include 5 room house 2 lots 8 room house 2 lots 4 room house 1 lot store building 1 lot and mercantile business swap options. Contact H E Ayres & Co phone 95 Polk Neb for details.
The piece blends nature and romance with life changes and fate. It contrasts happiness and heartbreak among friends, love’s trials, and a ship's voyage, ending with a religious reflection that death ends all mystery and hints at eternal life.
An enthusiastic meeting for baseball was held Tuesday evening at O K Kid. Stevens and Dr Peterson were business visitors to Osceola Tuesday afternoon. The Arborville Methodist church will be sold at public auction. Miss Tillie Nelson collapsed during services at a church west of Polk last Thursday evening and was cared for by an uncle before returning home. she later showed signs of improvement.
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